Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Our boy is growing up!

This past week Jonathan crossed over from Cub Scouts into Boy Scouts. After 6 years of being a Cub Scout he is now into the big kid group. That means my sweet baby is growing up! He will be in middle school next year. I found this picture of Jonathan the other day and almost cried. So much has changed in the last 10 years of his life.  We are on to new adventures and a completely new stage of life. I hope the next 10 years slow down a little...

Friday, March 4, 2011

NYC Girls weekend

This past weekend I met up with some friends in NYC for a long weekend. The girls I met over 10 years ago when we first joined the military. They have been through births of 5 kids among the 3 of us and holidays when we couldn't get home to see our families. It was WONDERFUL getting to have an entire weekend to just us. We ate at lovely restaurants including Bobby Flays Mesa Grill. We got up at 5:30 to get ready for Regis and Kelly and actually got tickets because we were there so early. We found a place to get pedicures together in Greenwich Village. We did tons of shopping in China town and strolled along 5th Avenue. We took the Ferry to see Statue of Liberty and visited Ground Zero. We went to an indoor flea market and shopped for hours. We went to an offbroadway show "The Fantastics" and to see "Mary Poppins" on Broadway. We also ate cheesecake from Juniors at 12:00 at night. My friends and family know that this is usually way past my bedtime : ) We had a third friend take the train in for the day and we explored Chelsea Market. We found the hidden elevator to Food Network Studios but got in trouble from the security guard when we started to go on it. We talked for hours on end and never ran out of things to share with each other. I was so blessed to have these amazing friendships! The 4 days were an adventure and so much fun. We even got on the wrong bus and ended up in Harlem  (the opposite way that we were supposed to be going to the airport). I think it should be once a year occurence.

Trying New Things

This past year has been a year of change. We moved from a huge running community to an area that does not have the biking and running trails...